openleft.com - 11/1/2008
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In my newspaper column this week, I noted that the term "center-right nation" is now the word du jour for the elite media and Punditburo. We are being told that no matter how big a progressive landslide Tuesday may bring, our country nonetheless will always be a "center-right nation." The latest ...
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ThinkProgress has a fantastic video up putting together
a highlight reel of conservatives parroting the "center-right nation"
meme that I described in my last newspaper column. Check it out here: As I said in my column, "the 'center-right nation' ...
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"Center-Right Nation" Meme On Tape
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David Sirota: "Center-Right Nation" Watch - Doug Schoen Edition
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... Of course, Clinton did not make a judgment that America was progressive after his election - after all, his first legislative initiative was NAFTA, not health care. But that's the storyline - and one that will be used by the right to deter an Obama administration from pursuing any transformative progressive policies. It's actually brilliant from a marketing standpoint - self-declared conservatives like Krauthammer and ...
Hullabaloo —
... since 1964, in the wake of winning a majority of the votes cast in 4 out of the last 5 Presidential elections, in the wake of reducing the Republican Party to a regional outpost in the South and part of the Great Plains, this is a profoundly conservative nation. Here's a partial list: Ron Brownstein, Jon Meacham, Peggy Noonan, Howard Fineman, David Broder, John Heilemann, John King, Mark Penn, Doug Schoen, Charles Krauthammer, Ruth Marcus, Marc Halperin, Dan Balz, Peter Wehner, ...
"America Remains a Center-Right Nation"
Shadow of the Hegemon —
... since 1964, in the wake of winning a majority of the votes cast in 4 out of the last 5 Presidential elections, in the wake of reducing the Republican Party to a regional outpost in the South and part of the Great Plains, this is a profoundly conservative nation. Here's a partial list: Ron Brownstein, Jon Meacham, Peggy Noonan, Howard Fineman, David Broder, John Heilemann, John King, Mark Penn, Doug Schoen, Charles Krauthammer, Ruth Marcus, Marc Halperin, Dan Balz, Peter Wehner, ...
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ourfuture.org 11/29/2008 — Sure, this is a center-right country, but only if you substitute addition for analysis. There are more conservatives than liberals — as there has been for years. So add them to the 44% of the electorate that says they are "moderates," and you get a ...
A center-right nation?
washingtonmonthly.com 10/21/2008 — A CENTER-RIGHT NATION?.... If the available evidence is accurate, in about two weeks, Americans will help elect a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, and possibly a Democratic president. A majority of the nation's governors are already Democrats. ...
"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Ruth Marcus Edition
openleft.com 11/5/2008 — The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus - a reliable parrot of conventional wisdom - joins the Punditburo's insistence that the largest progressive mandate in contemporary American history means that obviously - clearly! - America remains more conservative ...
"America Remains a Center-Right Nation"
demosthenes.blogspot.com 11/8/2008 — Dday's ticked. "Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives." -Paul Wellstone, Election Night 1990 acceptance speech We are 18 years on from that piercingly simple statement, and yet nobody in the Democratic Party ...
"center-right nation" (News Stories from Google)
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Center-Right, Center-Left, Etc.
corner.nationalreview.com 11/18/2008 — Tod Lindberg argues that conservatives are fooling themselves if they think that the U.S. is a "center-right nation." Me, I'm not sure what it would mean for the country to be either "center-right" or "center-left." I can see the point of saying that ...
The Center-Left Nation
ourfuture.org 11/29/2008 — Conservatives started spinning even before the dancing stopped on election night. Obama's victory is impressive, but "this is still a center right nation," went the mantra. "This was a good Democratic year, says Bill Kristol, "but this is still a ...
Center Right Nation? Survey Says: Not So Much
openleft.com 11/16/2008 — Last time Democrats won 50%+ of the House popular vote: November 4.
Last time Republicans won 50%+ of the House popular vote: 1946.
Numbers on the flip.
House Popular Vote
Year Dems Reps
1942 46.1% 50.6%
1944 50.6% 47.2%
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USA a Center Left Nation
angrybear.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — Robert Waldmann Matthey Yglesias points to an old mediamatters.com report which attempts to demolish the center right nation claim. I think the report is a precious resource as it collects the relevant data. Previously I found myself wasting a lot of ...
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